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I am beyond grateful that LIVESTRONG asked me to write a guest blog post about lung cancer and the stigma that surrounds it. The LIVESTRONG blog is highlighting lung cancer stories as part of Lung Cancer Awareness Month. I want to thank the WTF? community for sharing its experiences with this horrible stigma for inclusion…
I’m starting a new series called “TMI (Too Much Information): Personal Details About Cancer Patients You Don’t Want to Hear.” Why? Because being a cancer patient can be a very lonely existence, especially if you’re a lung cancer patient like my Mom (no she has never smoked). The stigma attached to lung cancer has to…
Part II in a series regarding my investigation into the American Cancer Society and interview with the Chief Medical Officer Dr. Otis Brawley On April 22, 2011. I had a two hour phone interview with Dr. Otis Brawley, CMO of the American Cancer Society (ACS). As a fairly new lung cancer advocate, I have a…
April 4, 2010 Dear President Obama, I have written you before and so pray that this letter will be one of the ten that you read everyday. First of all, I want to say how much I admire you and could watch your speeches for hours. You are such a natural and I feel so…
Believe it or not, you will actually hear a little known, but big fact about lung cancer, on a hit prime time television show this Sunday night. The words will go by very quickly, as Desperate Housewives character Mrs. McCluskey, played by Kathryn Joosten, celebrates the fact that her lung cancer surgery was successful. On…
